We took our recording van last week to a small, Lancashire mill town about 15 miles from Manchester and found, almost without exception, that the children there were happy, excited by their new ...

Throughout World War Two, in a massively complex and dramatic operation, approximately three million people were evacuated from towns and cities that were in danger of being bombed by enemy aircraft.

The invention of the long-range bomber meant that the general fear of war intensified in the 1930s. The government was estimating that up to 600,000 civilians might be killed in the first few ...